“A traveller from the cradle to the grave
Through the dim night of this immortal day.”

—  Percy Bysshe Shelley , Prometheus Unbound

Demogorgon, Act IV, l. 549
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)
Context: Man, who wert once a despot and a slave,
A dupe and a deceiver! a decay,
A traveller from the cradle to the grave
Through the dim night of this immortal day.

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